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Foster-child   /fˈɑstər-tʃaɪld/   Listen
Foster-child

noun
1.
A child who is raised by foster parents.  Synonyms: foster child, fosterling.





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"Foster-child" Quotes from Famous Books



... face, "so there was a dream, was there? Did it fall upon you last night when the daughter of Amen, my foster-child, instructed ...
— Morning Star • H. Rider Haggard
... being any cost and trouble to him. 'Stuff and nonsense!' said he; 'I've got money saved, and the farm's doing well, and only my two bits of maids to leave it to; and who should I desire to help in this big trouble, if not my own foster-child, and hers?' So father yielded, and we went ...
— The Maidens' Lodge - None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) • Emily Sarah Holt
... Church dogma, and devoted their whole attention to the perfecting of the spiritual life in the knowledge and love of God. But this cannot be said of the leaders. Christian Mysticism appears in history largely as an intellectual movement, the foster-child of Platonic idealism; and if ever, for a time, it forgot its early history, men were soon found to bring it back to "its old loving nurse the Platonic philosophy." It will be my task, in the third and fourth Lectures ...
— Christian Mysticism • William Ralph Inge


Words linked to "Foster-child" :   shaver, foster-son, foster-daughter, kid, small fry, minor, tiddler, nestling, tike, tyke, nipper, child, fry, foster son, youngster, foster daughter


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